A new website will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 will be used to manage DNS records. What type of record should be set in Route 53 to point the websi

The correct answer is D. ALIAS. Route 53 supports the alias resource record set, which lets you map your zone apex (e.g. example.com) DNS name to your load balancer DNS name. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gvcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/setting-up-route53zoneapex-elb.html

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A new website will run on Amazon EC2 instances behind an Application Load Balancer. Amazon Route 53 will be used to manage DNS records. What type of record should be set in Route 53 to point the website's apex domain name (for example, "company.com") to the Application Load Balancer?

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ACNAME
BSOA
CTXT
DALIAS

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Explanation

Route 53 supports the alias resource record set, which lets you map your zone apex (e.g. example.com) DNS name to your load balancer DNS name. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gvcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/setting-up-route53zoneapex-elb.html

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#Route 53 alias record#zone apex#ALB#DNS

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